This is a collection of my writing and correspondence with a few bits of poetry and random thoughts mixed in. I started this blog after learning that some of my letters had an uplifting quality.
In the pages of this blog you will find my real life trials and tribulations, the nature of what I think is truth, and the dust and grit of my real life.

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Saturday, January 2, 2016

Private Person’s Arrest

24th October 2013

Dear
Cassi,

Today
I made my first private person’s arrest. It’s a funny thing about that, you
see, I made this arrest on duty as a security officer when the person was
clearly guilty of trespassing. The
police knew that my company would never press charges, but the person in this
case had laid hand on me.

It
started with the common event of someone coming to the front door of the
building and looking like they needed help. As the intercom system is out I
could do little, but let him in to communicate but as he was shirtless and
rather grubby I thought he had been in a fight and needed help. When I open the
door he said he needed the police and I said I would call them. He then asked
to use the restroom, and I said I couldn’t let him in. Management had made a
stink about that lately and they felt mercy took second seat to safety. I can’t
argue the point.

As
is often the case he got agitated and, feeling entitled, started screaming.
This happens. When you deal with the client population that I deal with things
like this are just par for the course. I’m not sure if this man was just crazy
or if he wanted to spend the night in a jail cell. Jail cells are more comfortable
than the street and he needed a bath so bad that getting locked up wouldn’t
have been as bad as his smell.

He
reached over the partition and smacked me on the chest prodding me do let him
in, and I said if he did not leave he would be arrested. We argued verbally until the police came and
cuffed him.

It
was a hell of a thing to watch, he said he called them, they told him to tell
it to the judge and then asked if I wanted to make an arrest. I said yes and
the Officer took paperwork out of her shirt and filled it out. I signed it and
they took him away.